Last modified: 2013-12-13 20:42:00 UTC
I'd like to suggest an option to limit Search to (a) the current article and/or (b) talk pages, and/or (c) article history summary (d) article history content. Some talk pages have 20+ archive pages, and I'd like to discover whether an issue has been discussed before. If I could search all the talk and archive pages for keywords, I may save unnecessary repetition. Ideally I'd like to see the Search box have a drop down menu where I can select this, and other options, as Special:Search is difficult to get to.
If you're running the Lucene search engine (via MWSearch ext) you can include 'prefix:Blah' in your search to limit the search to pages beginning with that prefix. This is what's in use on Wikimedia sites; it's available as a side option on <inputbox> as well, and is frequently used to make search-this-discussion-and-archives forms.
I guess this is implemented on Wikipedia to allow searches of all the different name spaces. I can search all Talk:pages, but that's all 3 million article search pages. So to be able to limit search to a specific article, etc, would be new.
LiquidThreads should allow searching from discussions, but it is broken.
(In reply to comment #3) > LiquidThreads should allow searching from discussions, but it is broken. That's a Lucene feature too, not something from LQT itself in isolation. (In reply to comment #2) > I guess this is implemented on Wikipedia to allow searches of all the > different > name spaces. No. > I can search all Talk:pages, but that's all 3 million article > search pages. > > So to be able to limit search to a specific article, etc, would be new. No. This is fixed by Lucene/Cirrus, it's not likely to ever be included in core if at all possible. As for searching edit summary past revisions' full text, there are other open bugs for that.
